An All-Neural On-Device Speech Recognizer (Google) — on-device is the important bit here: no more uploading all your ambient audio to the cloud. After compression, the final model is 80MB. That’s impressive too.

Super Sensors — a single, highly capable sensor can indirectly monitor a large context, without direct instrumentation of objects.

Observations on Burnout — I’ll add some data points, go in-depth on what I think causes it, and attempt to offer some advice for engineers and managers.